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 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
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package org.jbfilter.jsp;

import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;

import org.jbfilter.core.FilterComponentContainer;

public interface FilterComponentContainerTag<E> {
	FilterComponentContainer<E> getFilterComponentContainer();
	/**
	 * Some filter components must delay execution of some processing
	 * until some point of the parent's tag doTag() method. For instance the
	 * clean command call changes state of filter components, so some
	 * work in the filter components tag handlers must take this change into account :
	 * this is the reason for the {@link FilterTagCallable} interface.
	 * @param callable
	 * @throws JspException
	 */
	void registerFilterTagCallable(FilterTagCallable callable)throws JspException;
	/**
	 * The name of the provider if set, otherwise {@code null}
	 * @return the name of the provider
	 */
	String getProviderName();
	/**
	 * The class name of the provider if set, otherwise {@code null}
	 * @return the class name of the provider
	 */
	String getProviderClassName();

}
